Gassing for a guitar that doesn't exist!

[Sifu Ben]

Help, I was browsing Warmoth last night and I started speccing a "shred" Tele. Today I'm totally GASsing for it :o
Do I need to get out more or what?

[Simon D]

Nah, I'd say that's perfectly normal. I've specced more than 20 Warmoths of various types, and come very close to pulling the trigger on about 6 of them. Hell, I've even built 1! Speccing up guitars is a very theraputic, if perhaps a little, err, sad, way of spending time. That's my excuse anyway!

[headtheball]

No harm in that at all, Ben. I've been speccing at my notionate perfect Stoner Rock Guitar since God was a boy, and I honestly don't think I'm any closer to resolution now than I was when i started.

[Ted 'N' Leo]

Ooh the warmoth game! Always keep a window open in opera for it!

I'm hoping to build one before the end of the year.

[tomjackson]

Gassing for a guitar that WILL exist.

Nout wrong with that.

I have a word document where I paste guitars I designed from this:-

http://www.usacustomguitars.com/virtualguitar.html

Now I know what my tele will look like, so close but so far!!!!

[WezV]

here are a few more of the virtual guitar things

http://www.nymphusa.com/kisekae/kisekaeE1.asp

i use them all the time when trying to decide spec for standard models of guitar, like this tele i am building


 although i have changed a few things since i drew it, went for a standard tele control layout in the end - and i had to do the headstock in photoshop

[martinw]

Nothing wrong with it. I always reckoned my perfect guitar was an HSS SG, which didn't exist, so I made it happen.
I was right, and now I'm coverting my other SG to HSS.

[Roobubba]

The only thing that's wrong with it is that you mentioned tele. I mean, it's completely fine if you're a modern man, and all... Just don't expect people not to think you're a complete **** if you stand on stage with one, that's all :)

No offense, like :)

Roo

[Sifu Ben]

 It's a rear routed HSS tele in walnut with a wizard neck, so it's a long way from classic tele territory.

[WezV]

i dont think you can convince him ;)

[Roobubba]

Lose the cr@ppy headstock, the bulbous top horn, any form of scratchplate and especially that metal bridge mounting plate, and then I'll concede it's not totally shite. Of course, it won't then be a tele...

Roo

[Ted 'N' Leo]

This is my idea for a Warmoth, except it would be made of Padouk (Mahogany was the closested i could get on the site), but i think it gets the general idea across, it would also have a reverse headstock.

Irish tours as pickups possibly? Its a work in progress.

[HTH AMPS]

This is my idea for a Warmoth, except it would be made of Padouk (Mahogany was the closested i could get on the site), but i think it gets the general idea across, it would also have a reverse headstock.

Irish tours as pickups possibly? Its a work in progress.

I've always had a hankering for an all-mahogany Strat too, bet it would take some of the snap out of the typical Strat tone and soften the note attack.  Well, thats what I'd hope for anyway.

At the end of the day I just got a Tele instead as I like the tone and shape over Strats.

[il˙ti]

Lose the cr@ppy headstock, the bulbous top horn, any form of scratchplate and especially that metal bridge mounting plate, and then I'll concede it's not totally shitee. Of course, it won't then be a tele...

Roo

Exactly. People assume you just dislike a few things about the tele (single coil pickups, bolt-on contruction, pickguard) when really it's everything that sucks.

[Ted 'N' Leo]

This is my idea for a Warmoth, except it would be made of Padouk (Mahogany was the closested i could get on the site), but i think it gets the general idea across, it would also have a reverse headstock.

Irish tours as pickups possibly? Its a work in progress.

I've always had a hankering for an all-mahogany Strat too, bet it would take some of the snap out of the typical Strat tone and soften the note attack.  Well, thats what I'd hope for anyway.

At the end of the day I just got a Tele instead as I like the tone and shape over Strats.

My original concept was to use Mahogany, but i thought that would be a bit silly if i wanted to get a good strat tone.

I fancied doing a traditional Butterscotch tele with black pickguard to, but put MQs in it instead of the tele pickups.